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Forums › Freeview (DVB-T/DVB-S) › Aus gets Freeview, how does that help us with PVRs?


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Topic # 33189 2-May-2009 12:22
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http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/301059/freeview_announces_compatible_tvs_digital_video_recorders

May give us more PVR options than Zinwell PVT-640 or TiVo.

Article mentions Beyonwiz FV-L1 and Topfield TF7050HDRt

Anyone know if they will work in NZ?

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  Reply # 211643 2-May-2009 12:27
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Means nothing at all for NZ.

All Australia is doing is launching the Freeview Brand for it's Digital FTA platform. They are also launching a MHEG5 EPG to replace the existing EIT based one which was transmitted individually by each broadcaster. MHEG5 offers lots of cool new features such as series link that were a hack before and hard to impliment using EIT.

Aussie is still using MPEG2 unlike the MPEG4/H.264 we are using here in NZ so no hardware will work unless it includes support for both codecs.

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